Poetry 2.0

Personification


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Definition: Giving human characteristics to a non-living object.

Example:The window winked at me.  
The verb, wink, is a human action.  A window is a non-living object.

Two Sunflowers 
Move in the Yellow Room.


"Ah, William, we're weary of weather,"
said the sunflowers, shining with dew.
"Our traveling habits have tired us.
Can you give us a room with a view?"


They arranged themselves at the window
and counted the steps of the sun,
and they both took root in the carpet
where the topaz tortoises run. 

William Blake
(1757-1827)


The Cat & The Fiddle

Hey diddle, Diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed 
To see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.


By Mother Goose

The Train

I like to see it lap the miles, 
And lick the valleys up,
And stop to feed itself at tanks;
And then, prodigious, step


Around a pile of mountains,
And, supercilious, peer
In shanties by the sides of roads;
And then a quarry pare
To fit its sides, and crawl between, Complaining all the while
In horrid, hooting stanza;
Then chase itself down hill 

And neigh like Boanerges;
Then, punctual as a start its own,
Stop-docile and omnipotent-
A stable door.


By Emily Dickinson


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